While tensions have increased between the Catholic Church in Spain and the left-wing government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, studies also have shown a growing rift between the Catholic Church and Spaniards in general.

Despite some serious legislative and social differences that have led the Catholic Church and the Spanish government to bump heads, the country has a "healthy secularism," said Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid.

Spain, a bastion of Christianity in Europe for centuries, finds itself in a crisis of faith as the influence of Catholicism continues to decline.

What's unique is his bulletin board: lined side to side with letters from a mission trip to New York City with his fellow classmates at La Salle Institute in Troy, New York. Resting on top of the board is a gold and brown cross -- a sign of his newly found Catholic faith.

A March 22 online webinar on the Equality Act focused on criticism that the legislation is so vaguely worded it would harm religious liberty and obscure biological reality.

The COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on last year's celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of St. Oscar Romero's martyrdom.

As a boy who was constantly filling his notebooks with drawings, George Perez told his father, "My dream is to have my artwork in a museum."

While standing outside the prison that housed Virginia's execution chamber, Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in the state March 24.

He was invested in the Capuchin habit in 1966, perpetually professed in 1971, and ordained a priest in 1973.

With Holy Week looming large before us I would like to address briefly the three days of Holy Week, known as the “Triduum.”  

In 10 episodes, one each month, we bring you a video with the Pope's reflections and first-hand testimonies of families from across the world on the theme of the family.

Everyone is responsible for caring for the world's oceans, which are fundamental to supporting life on the planet, said a panel of speakers at a Vatican conference.

The March 25 announcement in Manila and at the Vatican filled the vacancy Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle left in February 2020, when he was called to the Vatican.

Consecrated men and women need a solid foundation built on ongoing formation, a clear identity and the "rock" of God's eternal love that sets them free, said a letter from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

While the coronavirus pandemic upended most aspects of college life this past year, its impact on students' mental health has had Catholic college and university leaders looking for new ways to reach students and get resources to them.

Pope Francis, his liturgy office and his communications team made very deliberate decisions over the past year with the goal of letting people experience how close the pope was to them in their isolation and suffering.

"Dante's work is an integral part of our culture, taking us back to the Christian roots of Europe and the West," he said. "It embodies that patrimony of ideals and values that the church and civil society continue to propose as the basis of a humane social order in which all can and must see others as brothers and sisters."

In a faded baseball cap and gray short-sleeved shirt, Bishop Donald E. DeGrood of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, waved to a cellphone filming him inside the cab of a combine, harvesting corn.

And that was it, until she returned last year as the director, producer and co-writer of the documentary "The Prison Within," which looks at how restorative justice principles work with those society typically regards as the most hardened murderers.

Officer Eric Talley, an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was the first to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store the afternoon of March 22 and the first of 10 to be killed.